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Oil Processing
Series: Food Cycle Technology Source Book
Published: 1993
Pages: 48
eBook: 9781780444192
Paperback: 9781853391347
Offers guidance on the selection of appropriate equipment for small businesses, with case studies and technical information about each type of machine. For field workers training for food processing projects, and their trainers, and the non-specialist.
| INTRODUCTION ix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Raw materials from which oil can be extracted 1 | |||
| 2 Traditional methods of oil extraction 2 | |||
| Oil-seed processing | |||
| Nuts | |||
| Mesocarps | |||
| Women and oil extraction technologies | |||
| 3 Improved technologies | |||
| Pre-processing methods and devices | |||
| Oil extraction devices | |||
| Refining | |||
| Systems for oil processing | |||
| 4 Case studies | |||
| Oil expellers | |||
| Oil plate presses | |||
| Alternative energy sources | |||
| Technology change to meet women's choice | |||
| Summary | |||
| 5 Planning a project or enterprise | |||
| First questions | |||
| Background questions | |||
| Effect of improved technology on traditional processing industry | |||
| 6 Pre-processing and extraction equipment: facts and figures | |||
| Pre-processing | |||
| Expellers | |||
| Ghanis | |||
| Screw presses | |||
| Hydraulic presses | |||
| REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING | |||
| CONTACTS |
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